Description of App
By Twitter, Inc.
Follow your interests: instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world. Get short bursts of timely information on the official Twitter app.
Real-time search reveals breaking news, while trending topics show what’s happening now around the world. View trends, browse your interests and see suggested users in several categories, including fashion, entertainment and travel, or search to find out what people are saying about topics you care about, such as politics or big sporting events.
Features: Browse interests, Find & follow friends, Tweet, Retweet, Favorite, Follow, exchange Direct messages with your followers, share photos, videos and web pages, real-time search, trends.
What's New in Version 4.1
Changes are for iPhone only:
- Swipe shortcut
- Copy and paste for tweets and profiles
- Press and hold actions on links in tweet details
- Font size settings
- Direct Message improvements
- Confirmation alert for Find Friends
- Improved startup time and general performance improvement
- Improved image quality in tweet detail
- Accessibility improvements
- Profile shows whether a user follows you
- Verified badges in people search results
- New language: Turkish
- Lots of other polish and bug fixes
Version
Free or Paid
Compatibility
Device(s) App Was Tested On
Accessibility Comments
I could not find any accessibility problems!
VoiceOver Performance
Button Labelling
Usability
Other Comments
Twitter had been slowly getting away from being truely accessible. All that has changed now for version 4.1. Whatever fire was put under them has made a huge impact on the accessiblity of this app. The Me Tab now works great. The Timeline read a lot easier and simple. My hats goes off for the Twitter team in making a huge turn around for making this so much more accessible!
Comments
#1 Version 4 not good
I don't generally use the Twitter app, but was curious to try the newly released update as it's apparently had a major facelift.
I'm not sure what accessibility problems were present in the previous version, but there are a number in this one. Most of these appear to be in the 'Me' area of the app, where a number of buttons are not recognized as such. Instead, when you swipe onto them, you just hear a 'click'.
3 buttons on the main 'Me' page that are like this are Switch Account, Settings and Help. You can double-tap on these when you hear the 'click', and the page does open. However, the Settings page in particular is quite horrible to navigate with VoiceOver. Several page elements are recognized by nothing more than that 'click', and the labels for some toggle switches are not read by VoiceOver.
From the 'Me' page you have access to your lists and saved searches. These pages also have various page elements that are recognized as just a 'click'.
Horrible, horrible and more horrible. I suspect that there are more issues, but by this point I had lost any interest in this app.
If you do want to update, I would suggest that you make sure you have an old version tucked away somewhere safe and ready to be restored.
#2 campaign of the month
So maybe this is a new idea for campaign of the month? Twitter is quite used by blind people.
#3 Alternatives
Although Twitter should be ashamed of themselves for releasing a major update that has clearly never been tested with VoiceOver, there are some good alternatives available.
One of these, TweetList, has developers who go out of their way to provide excellent VoiceOver support.
Having praised TweetList, I must admit that I actually use Twitterrific as my default Twitter app. I'm not totally sure why I prefer it, but perhaps it suits my usage a little better. I do think it offers a slightly more satisfying user experience, but that's down to personal tastes. Both are better options than the Twitter app, although after this latest update that is not saying too much.
#4 Must have to agree. The new
Must have to agree. The new revision has made the Me Tab completely unusable or at least difficult to go through. However, I have had no problem in the Home, Connect and the Discover Tab. Agree that this should be selected for the campaign of the month.
#5 opening links
Another thing I seem to not be able to do is open links what are included in tweets. If I open tweet, there are the tweet and usual retweet, favorite etc buttons. but no mark of a opening url.
#6 Less horrible with some custom labels
Okay, after some reflection, perhaps things aren't quite as horrible as they might be.
The custom label feature in iOS 5 can make good most of the failings of the Twitter developers, although the 'Me' area of the app still leaves something to be desired.
#7 Version 4.1 release
Well, the table has changed. Check it out now and see if you can find anything wrong with it now. Looks completely revamped to work with Voice Over. Must say I'm impressed?!
Here are what are new in version 4.1:
- Swipe shortcut
- Copy and paste for tweets and profiles
- Press and hold actions on links in tweet details
- Font size settings
- Direct Message improvements
- Confirmation alert for Find Friends
- Improved startup time and general performance improvement
- Improved image quality in tweet detail
- Accessibility improvements
- Profile shows whether a user follows you
- Verified badges in people search results
- New language: Turkish
- Lots of other polish and bug fixes
So the Me Tab is now working. The settings appears to be working. Plus, the URL within the Tweet are now working.
What happened?!?!
#8 Problems fixed
Congratulations to the twitter team that fixed the accessibility issues we were having. On the other hand, a zero mark for the skype development team that looks like don't care about its accessibility problem because they didn't fix anything on the new update.